Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...emerald peau de soie and a rhinestone choker, Mrs. Norman Mailer No. 5 was singing the blues. In a Stockbridge, Mass., boite not far from the Mailer homestead, former Nightclub Singer Carol Stevens, 41, ran through a dozen old standards drawn mainly from Helen Morgan's repertory. Torch style, Carol aimed a few of the numbers directly at an impassive Norman in a stageside seat: The Man I Love and My Heart Belongs to Daddy. She also sang Gee Baby, Ain 't I Good to You after acknowledging to Male Chauvinist Mailer that it was really...
Then who's going to save the country? "Individual folks," Morgan says. He reaches back into American history and reels out examples of individuals who, he said, influenced historical currents. "If it hadn't been for John Brown, the Civil War wouldn't have come when it did. If it hadn't been for Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks, there wouldn't have been a Southern Christian Leadership Conference...
...today? "I think the impeachment movement is a chance to break loose--a chance for the people in this country to connect government with human beings again," Morgan said. "The intellectual community needs to ally on the issue of oppression--I think their alliance with blacks brought them to their better days...
Despite his distrust of the current state of legal education and public vigilance, Morgan said he turns to them as his last resort--with a little regeneration from "individual folks." "My whole experience has taught me to be hopeful," he told the students. "Educated people don't do the right thing unless they're confronted. You've got to learn to use the law as a weapon...
...recent years been recombing that life, issuing volumes of edited diaries and letters that began with her opulent childhood (Bring Me a Unicorn, 1972) as daughter of Morgan Partner Dwight Morrow, and Ambassador to Mexico. The second volume was last year's bestselling account of the tragic kidnaping of her son (Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead). This third volume begins when the Lindberghs were still hounded by reporters, and ends when they decided to escape it all and find a new life in England. The result is short on drama, but it rises to savage yet poignant moments...